Lil Karat Stixx

Sam The Music "Critic", better known for his rapper character/alter ego Lil Karat Stixx, is an Australian rapper and YouTube music critic known mostly for his song "I'm So Lit".

Lil Karat Stixx was released from the label in September 2020 due to his music not being enjoyed by the vast majority of the label's staff and members.

Lore (Summary)
Getting his start as a Minecraft parody YouTuber under the name JimmyPlays, he soon quit and took down his channel as it was covered by LeafyIsHere and infested with rabid Leafy fans. A couple of years later, he seeked advice from fellow rapper, soon-to-be clickbait Fortnite YouTuber and classmate Yung Chug Jug at a high school party as he learned the ways of being a trap rapper. Him and Yung Chug Jug would spend their time recording long, drawn out mumble rap freestyles until in 2018, they would finally record their first song "Flexin'."

In late 2018, Lil Karat Stixx: The Mixtape was released. 2019 rolled around and Karat had begun work on his now scrapped debut album The Premium Karat Experience but due to a lack of budget from low album sales, he eventually canned the project. This is strange, considering the entire album was being created in FL Studio. Later into the year as he spent the majority of the year browsing Reddit and listening to Flex Entertainment colleague Submarine Man, he was inspired by the likes of shitpost artists and a throwaway EP by Yung Schmoobin to create his first EP, HOLY CRAP MY ROOM IS ON FIRE. Unfortunately, during the recording he would actually set his room on fire, losing his house in the process. Luckily he made it out alive with his all his money, his Ratchet and Clank collection and his many Yeezys and he would be staying over at producer Lil Yung Cash Coins XX No Fakes II9642's mansion.

Here, Karat would begin work on 24KARAT, his debut album. Assisted by the new producer he envisioned a new era of Lil Karat Stixx; one with more high budget production and experimentation, a tighter tracklist and a lineup of A-list features including Lil Mosquito Disease and Big Baller B. He would reuse ideas from his scrapped original debut The Premium Karat Experience such as Norm of the North, Your Mixtape Is Trash, I Have At Least 104 Girls In My Contacts and a whole song, The Ultimate Lil Karat Stixx Anthem. In March of 2020 24KARAT was released to negative reception and underwhelming sales. Even Big Baller B, a collaborator on the track "Got It" would give his album a strong 1/10.

It turned out that Lil Yung Cash Coins XX No Fakes II9642 was an incredibly infamous producer, helping produce albums such as The Clash's Cut The Crap, Metallica's St. Anger and his own album The Grand Prejudice Of Nature And Gods Alike, which was so badly produced people began to believe it was experimental with how out there and unprofessional the production was. It would earn the genre tags Free Improvisation, Experimental and Bubblegum Bass on RYM despite it meaning to be a trap rap project.

Karat still persevered, releasing singles that would soon build up to a come-back mixtape The Karat Stixx Manifesto, which has been postponed indefinitely. He ended up releasing a song from the mixtape Dub (I Took One) under the Flex Gang, Vol. 2 compilation, which was described as one of the worst tracks on the comp. This was when Karat realised he was simply trying to appease the critics, so he took a brief hiatus.

During that hiatus however, Lil Toy Yoda would release a diss track on Karat accusing him of stealing lyrics from his songs as well as being a fan of Rich The Kid and beauty YouTuber James Charles; all of which were false. Karat was in the midst of creating a diss track but was too busy playing through the Ratchet and Clank series to do it. He later decided it wasn't worth the effort as he had already had his Flex Entertainment reputation taken down by false information. Eventually having the label side against him, including Submarine Man, Karat had hit an emotional low, inspiring his later EP 808s & Karat Cakes. He was later released from the label due to the poor critical reception and general disdain for his music.

Featuring a new singer-songwriter blend and a rushed quality, 808s and Karat Cakes was released in September of 2020 to catastrophically low sales and pretty much absent reception aside from a couple ratings. Karat has yet to release any new material since the EP but is reportedly thinking of new ideas for songs.

Albums

 * 24KARAT (2020)

EPs

 * HOLY CRAP MY ROOM IS ON FIRE (2019)
 * 808s & Karat Cakes (2020)

Mixtapes

 * Lil Karat Stixx: The Mixtape (2018)

Promotional Singles

 * "RANDOM FREESTYLE WHY NOT" (2018)